1998 The University-Wide Faculty Excellence in Research Award, National-Louis University

1998 Achievement Award for Scholarly and Service Contributions to the Field of Curriculum Studies, presented by JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and the Bergamo Conference

1992 The James N. Britton Award for Inquiry in English Language Arts for Creating Spaces and Finding Voices: Teachers Collaborating for Empowerment, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English

Elected Officer -President, American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. National election. Term: 2001-2004. Re-elected President for Second Term.Elected Officer - Vice President of American Educational Research Association for Division B(Curriculum Studies). International election. Term: 1997-1999.Elected Officer - Secretary of Division B (Curriculum Studies) of American Educational Research Association. International election. Term: 1990-1992.Elected Chairperson - Special Interest Group - Critical Issues in Curriculum, American Educational Research Association, 1988-1989 and 1989-1990.Invited Chair - Nominating Committee, Division B, American Educational Research Association, 1999-2000Invited Chair - Dissertation Award Committee, Division B, American Educational Research Association, 1994.Elected Member - Executive Committee of the Conference on English Education, National Council of Teachers of English. National Election. Term: 1990-1994.Elected Member - Professors of Curriculum.Member - Board of Examiners, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Term: 1988-1991.Invited Member - Standing Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification. National Council of Teachers of English. Term: 1986-1989.Selected Member - Hofstra University's Center for Excellence in Teaching. Term: 1990-1992.

2005 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association: Symposium: "Feminisms, Democracies, Curriculums in the (R)Age of Accountability" - "Accounting for Collaboration"; Symposium: "Whatever Happened to the Curriculum Field?"; Performative Symposium: "Generative Possibilities of Performative Exchange in Qualitative Research"; 2005 Annual Meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies: "Generative Possibilties of Performative Exchange in Curriculum Inquiries";

CONSULTANT ACTIVITIES:2001 Consultant, Miami University of Ohio, Department of Educational Leadership: "The Intersections of Leadership, Culture, and Schooling"1994-1996 Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Federal Grant, "Connecting the Curriculum," a project to create interdisciplinary curriculum for Grades K-12.1991-1994 Researcher, "A Study of School Change," sponsored by The Coalition of Essential Schools, Brown University.1992-present Consultant, Stoner Prairie Elementary School, Verona School District, Fitchburg, WI: A Study of the Prototype Program for Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Multi-Aged Grouping in Grades 1-3 and 4-5.1992-93 Researcher, Institute for Educational Inquiry: A Study of the Renewal Effort in the Philadelphia School District. Co-Sponsored by The Philadelphia Schools Collaborative and the Coalition of Essential Schools.1991 Summer Institute on Teaching, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh1984-1991 Longwood Island School District, Middle Island, New York, "Writing Across the Curriculum" - a series of inservice sessions for teachers K-12.1988 North Babylon Free Union School District, North Babylon,NY: "Teacher As Researcher" - a series of inservice sessions for teachers, K-8.1985 North Babylon Free Union School District, North Babylon,New York. "Writing as Process" - a series of inservice sessions for elementary teachers1985-1987 Middle Country School District: Superintendent's appointed Writing Committee to develop a writing1982-1986 Consultant, Tidewater Writing Project, Norfolk,Virginia.1984-1987 Consultant, New York Alliance for the Public Schools: "Principal as Curriculum Leader."1983 Consultant, Curriculum Assessment and Development Project, Virginia Beach Public Schools.1982 Consultant, Composition Enrichment for High School Students, Norfolk Public Schools, Norfolk, Virginia.1980 Department of Energy curriculum writing: methods manuals for energy education.1980 Proposal Reviewer for Faculty Development Programs, Oakridge Associated Universities and Dept. of Energy, December, Atlanta, GA.1979 Six-month assignment in Washington, DC: Battelle Division: "A Monitoring and Evaluation of Curriculum Projects in Energy Education"

Janet L. Miller earned her M.A. in English Education from the University of Rochester, New York, and her Ph.D. in Humanities Education and Curriculum Theory from The Ohio State University. She taught high school English for seven years and has been teaching at the university level since 1979. She currently is Professor and Coordinator of Programs in English Education/The Teaching of English at Teachers College and Co-Chair of the Teacher Education Policy Committee.Active in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for many years, she was elected Vice President of AERA for Division B-Curriculum Studies for the 1997-1999 term, and elected AERA Secretary of Division B for the 1990-1992 term. She was 1994 Chair of the Division's Dissertation Award Committee, and served as a Program Section Chair (for Curriculum Theorizing) for the Division's 1996 Annual Meeting Program. She also served as Chair of the Nominating Committee for Division B for the 1999-2000 term. In addition, she was elected Chair of the AERA Critical Issues in Curriculum Special Interest Group from 1988 through 1990. Janet was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies for the 2001-2004 term, and re-elected President for a second term. In 1991, Janet received Hofstra University's Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication for her book, Creating Spaces and Finding Voices: Teachers Collaborating for Empowerment. In 1992, she received the James N. Britton Award from the National Council of Teachers of English for that same book. In 1998, she was awarded National-Louis University's University-wide Faculty Excellence in Research Award, and in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 she received an Excellence in Teaching Award from Teachers College, Columbia University.As Managing Editor of JCT: The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing since its inception in 1978 through 1998, Janet also served for many years as Program Chair of the JCT-sponsored Bergamo Annual Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice. Her research and teaching interests focus on intersections of curriculum and feminist theories, constructions of teacher subjectivities in collaborative school reform and research efforts, and biography and autobiography as postmodern forms of qualitative inquiry. Her work has been published in a number of international refereed journals, including Curriculum Inquiry, Educational Theory, Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, Educational Foundations, English Journal, Journal of Curriculum Studies, English Education, and JCT, among others. As well, she has authored over twenty-five book chapters. Janet is the author of Creating Spaces and Finding Voices: Teachers Collaborating for Empowerment (State University of New York Press, 1990) and Co-Editor, with William C. Ayers, of A Light in Dark Times: Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation (Teachers College Press, 1998). A collection of her writing from 1978 through 2004, Sounds of Silence Breaking: Women, Autobiography, Curriculum (Peter Lang Publishing), was published in 2005. She recently received one of two Teachers College Tenured Faculty Research Awards for the 2003-2004 academic year for her current research, tentatively entitled "Convergences: A Collaborative Biography of Maxine Greene."

A&HE 5504: Research paper: teaching of English

Required of all Ed.M., Ed.D. and Ph.D. students. This course facilitates the writing of a paper representing the results of an independent research project. Usually requires enrollment for 2 semesters, each earning 3 credits. Special fee required.

A&HE 6151: Narrative Research in English Education

Permission of instructor required. A survey of approaches to and examples of narrative research, including oral history, life history, biography, autobiography, and autoethnography. Special fee required.

A&HE 6152: Advanced narrative research in English education

This advanced course will provide context for students to build on their prior knowledge of various genres of narrative research (biography, autobiography, testimonial, oral history, or life history, for example), to engage in sustained study of a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that might frame their research, and to develop further their own narrative research projects.

A&HE 6204: Advanced fieldwork in teaching English

Permission of instructor required. Provides opportunities for instructional experimentation and research in classrooms and other field settings.

A&HE 6404: Internship in college teaching of English

Permission of instructor required. Provides opportunities to function in an apprenticeship role in teaching or research in the context of a college English classroom or other field setting.

A&HE 6450: Internship in teaching English

Permission of instructor required. Provides opportunities to function in an apprenticeship role in teaching or research in the context of a secondary English classroom or other field setting. Special fee required.

A&HE 6904: Research and independent study

Permission of instructor required. Advanced research and independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Students work individually or with others.

A&HE 7504: Dissertation seminar: teaching of English

Permission of instructor required. Designed to help students complete an acceptable dissertation proposal. Special fee required.

A&HE 8904: Dissertation advisement in teaching English

Permission of instructor required. All Ed.D. and Ph.D. students upon successful defense of dissertation proposal must be continuously registered for Dissertation Advisement until the final defense of the dissertation. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term.